Plot Progression
How does the sailor get into/near the apartment?
What is Paris?
What type of crime is described in all types of true crime stories?
What is crime that actually occurred?
Who's point of view is the story told from?
What is a friend of Dupin's? (Narrator)
How did Poe earn his money?
What is by being an author?
How does the narrator first see Dupin's special ability?
What is Dupin reads the narrator's mind and says exactly what the narrator was thinking at the time?(Anything similar works)
In what year does this story occur?
What is 1840?
Why was the sailor necessary to complete the story?
What is the sailor recounted his story, to let the audience know what occurred? (Anything close will work).
Where is the younger woman's body found?
What is inside of a chimney?
Poe is considered the inventor of which genre?
What is detective/mystery?
Who is the actual killer?
What is the orangutan?
List one way the author created suspense in the passage.
What is Poe withheld the knowledge of who the murderer was, questioned the tactics of how the killer got in the room, and he did not let us know the thoughts of everyone in the story?
What aspect of true crime is described in depth by Dupin?
What is the crime(the killing of the two woman)?
Where did the orangutan come from?
What is a sailor brought it back from his voyages?
Poe's character Duplin shared as a model for which other detective story?
What is Sherlock Holmes?
How were the women killed in the beginning of the passage?
What is one is strangled and the other's head is decapitated?
Why does the sailor accept Dupin's request to meet him?
What is the sailor wants his money for the animal, and Dupin is using a trick to catch the criminal?
Why is true crime liked by most?
What is it creates a suspenseful story of what has actually occurred in the past?
What is one clue that were never comes up again?
The money from the bank
Doctor visiting
Poe is often known for what type of writing?
What is poems?
How does Dupin find out where the murderer got into the apartment?
What is he analyzes the room, and notices a loose screw which prompts him to test his window theory?(Anything close will be acceptable).
Why is the girl being in the chimney very important to this story?
What is no man could've put her up there, which causes Dupin to decipher that it must have been a very strong animal?
What strategy did Poe use that differs from the norm in most true crime stories?
What is the use of suspense of not knowing who the killer is?
How did the narrator and Dupin meet?
What is they went to the same library and met a couple of times?
Poe was named after a playwright by which great author?(Considered most well-known to date)
What is William Shakespeare?